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Seven specimens from Cagayancillo and one from Iloilo, 2.50 to 3.50 inches long. This species 
occurs near the shore in schools. Great numbers are taken at Cagayancillo with circular casting nets. 
(McGregor.) . 
15. Anchovia setirostris (Broussonet). 
Depth 4.30; head 4.30; eye 3.60; dorsal m, 12; anal 1, 31; scales 35. Maxillary with an extremely 
long backwardly directed process, reaching almost to the vent. 
One specimen from Aparri, 3.50 inches long. 
Family SYNODONTIDA. 
SYNODUS Bloch & Schneider, 
16. Synodus japonicus (Houttuyn). (Synodus varius (Lacépede).) 
General color gray, mottled and finely speckled with dark brown; white below. One specimen 
3.75 inches long and one 6 inches, from Cuyo. 
SAURIDA Cuvier. 
17. Saurida argyrophanes Richardson. 
Depth 7; head 4.50; eye 5.30; dorsal 1, 11; anal 1, 10; scales 57; pectoral 1.6 in head. Color in 
life brown above with a silvery spot on each scale; sides silvery; belly dead white with but little 
sheen; ventral and anal white; other fins dusky. 
Four specimens from Manila, 3 to 9 inches long. 
18. Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard). 
One specimen, 3 inches long, from Cuyo. 
Family ANGUILLIDA. 
ANGUILLA Thunberg. 
19. Anguilla mauritiana Bennett. Aiwit. 
Color in life olive green, mottled with dark brown; belly white. 
One specimen from a brackish estuary at Calayan, 16 inches long, and one from Mindoro Island, 15 
inches long. Mr. McGregor records a specimen 31 inches long, whose stomach contained a snake nearly 
as long as the fish. 
Family MURA NESOCID. 
MURZENESOX McClelland. 
20. Murenesox cinereus (Forskil). Pindanga. 
Two specimens from Manila, 10 inches long. 
Family MYRID&. 
MURZNICHTHYS Bleeker. 
21. Mureenichthys thompsoni Jordan & Richardson, new species. 
Head 6.60; depth equal to distance from tip of snout to back of orbit; length of head and trunk 
equal to .80 of tail; snout 1.33 times eye; cleft of mouth 2.75 in head, the maxillary extending a distance 
Fic. 1.—Murenichthys thompsoni, new species. Type. 
behind orbit equal to length of snout; eye 18 in head; dorsal origin almost exactly midway between 
vent and gill-opening, the fin very low anteriorly; tail tapered to a sharp point, tipped with a short 
